“…For instance, with their tendency to be happier than other categories of marital status like singles, cohabitating, widowed, and the divorced ones who tend to have lower level of life satisfaction, the married people have been reported to have a high level of life satisfaction as reported by (Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999;Diener, Gohm, Suh, & Oishi, 2000, Ha & Kim, 2013. They are also in line with different studies carried out in Indonesia related to subjective well-being/happiness and marital status which have shown that married individuals are happy compared to unmarried ones Himawan et al, 2017Himawan et al, , 2018, Indonesian married individuals seem to be happier than the single ones (Rosifah et al, 2019). Nonetheless, it is not only the case of Indonesia, but also the same all over the world, as it has been revealed in their different studies related to subjective well-being and marital status (Veenhoven, 2006;Yap et al, 2012;Anusic et al, 2014;Greenstein, 2016;Lucas, 2018).…”